D(e)ad (2025)

Join Nowhere Cinema for a special Richmond premiere of D(e)ad, the new indie comedy written by and starring Izzy Roland!

If you're a fan of Game Changer, Make Some Noise, Very Important People, Dimension 20, or other incredible programming from Dropout.tv, now's your chance to see some of your favorite comedians on the big screen. Izzy's new film also features performances from Vic Michaelis, Brennan Lee Mulligan, and Zac Oyama. Don't miss out on this cool opportunity to support an independent film and be a part of Nowhere Cinema's first new release and ticketed event. We look forward to you joining us for this special night!

This screening will be subtitled.

Official synopsis: Tillie (Isabella Roland), a floundering young woman and her charismatic, alcoholic father (Craig Bierko), struggle to resolve their fractured relationship in the weirdest possible way: after he dies, his ghost appears in mirrors to haunt everyone in the family but Tillie. Tillie’s sister, Violet (Vic Michaelis), mother (Claudia Lonow), grandparents (Mark Lonow and Joanne Astrow), stepfather (Jonathan Schmock), and even Violet’s free-spirited baby daddy (Nick Marini), must do everything they can to make Tillie see her father… even employing a very reform rabbi (Eddie Peppitone) to exorcize him… or else they will be plagued by this ghost forever.

About the film: What do you get when you have three generations of comedians in one family, and someone dies? If you guessed an independent autobiographical self-funded feature-length dark comedy, you’d be absolutely right. D(e)AD is written by and starring Isabella Roland (Dropout.tv, Sex Lives Of College Girls); and directed by and starring Isabella’s mom, Claudia Lonow (creator/showrunner of How to Live With Your Parents for the Rest of Your Life, Accidentally on Purpose, Good Girls Don’t and Rude Awakening); and also the rest of their family.